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One hundred ambient tones

by: Zenpho

One hundred ambient tones is a collection of short ~40sec ambient audio snippets designed to be listened to in "random" or "shuffle" ordering. The transitions between tracks, chosen randomly by your machine on playback, become the focus.

The content varies from soft whiring drones, to raucous screeching of metal-on-metal recorded with contact-microphones. Tentative melodies and short bursts of fully arranged music, to the sound produced by connecting a solar panel to a microphone pre-amp, and the distant whistles pops and clicks from detuned radios.

It makes the perfect background sounds for conspiracy theorists and deep space telescope enthusiasts, and it's different everytime you listen to it.

Certain tracks make you think of other peoples sound design work; Track 71 nods toward a certain band's characteristic use of compressed electric pianos with exaggerated tape wow and flutter, while Track 31 pays respects to Japanese film sound designers Kazutoshi Satou and Hironori Ono of Studio Ghibli.

Includes recordings of Bipolar Junction Transistor shot noise, reference noisefloors from many popular brands of VHS video recorders, waveforms from a YMF262 chip, and the results of altering the encoding and decoding of Linear Predictive Coding for voice communications, and of MP3 compression.

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Addeddate: 2006-08-20 14:53:53

Identifier: Zenpho_one_hundred_ambient_tones

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Reviewer: Qool - - July 26, 2011
Subject: One hundred ambient tones

These are very pleasant tones; There's also some
potential to use some of these effects with some
good PC games, (if only I could be that creative)>.

Reviewer: thatjeffcarter - - August 18, 2009
Subject: super cool

Lots of ideas rambling around in my head ...

Reviewer: aw. Megalon - - August 17, 2009
Subject: Game development

Good collection of sound effects and riffs. I have been able to pick a few for my current space project. I think we should have more sounds artists posting sound effect collections.

Reviewer: pricjs28 - - November 2, 2006
Subject: obnoxious

not my cup of tea

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Saturday

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Doom

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Yronk yoo flip

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Pak ping bell

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Grundig feedback

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Escher 7ths

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Stupidly nice

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Turntable feedback

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Evil x5dr

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Grunge E

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Square

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Microphone fumble

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Motif - business

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Motif - guess who

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Voice codec abuse

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Motif - reverse

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Generator reunion

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ruK. eeeweeewee. Kur

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Bohdran

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Grundig gate

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Confused machine

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Xray glasses

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Screaming metal

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Radiator

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Window cleaner bubbles

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Solar panel

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What in the flaming frog

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Black in the dark

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Garry barlow

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Motif - flurry 2

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Fans and motors

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Ticking

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Clicking and Frogs

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Unsteady drone

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Motif - flurry 3

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Choral

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Explosions

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Saturday

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Shaolin

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Shaolin

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Panda swirl

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Shot noise

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Panda swirl

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Buzz crak

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Whistle

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Broken mp3

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Tone generation

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Crows

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Rhinestone cowboy

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Scary generator

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One pin only

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One pin only - gaps

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One pin only - data

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Humminh

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White tone

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Laputa clouds

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Home made chord

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Trains

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Breathing

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Bizzaro bleep

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Nice chord

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Doom

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Long time coming

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Strange loop

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Fake water

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Fake rain

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Stupidly nice

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Grunge E

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Square

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The big H.P

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Motif - business

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Motif - reverse

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Motif - guess who

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Voice codec abuse

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Generator reunion

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ruK. eeeweeewee. Kur

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Xray glasses

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Screaming metal

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Radiator

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Window cleaner bubbles

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What in the flaming frog

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Black in the dark

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Motif - flurry 2

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Fans and motors

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Ticking

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Clicking and Frogs

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Unsteady drone

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Substitute

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Motif - flurry 3

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Choral

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Explosions

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Saturday

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Shaolin

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Shaolin

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Panda swirl

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Shot noise

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Panda swirl

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Buzz crak

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Whistle

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Broken mp3

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Crows

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Rhinestone cowboy

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Scary generator

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One pin only

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One pin only - gaps

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One pin only - data

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Humminh

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Delay chords

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White tone

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Laputa clouds

266.6K

Home made chord

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Trains

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Breathing

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Bizzaro bleep

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Nice chord

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Doom

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Long time coming

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One two five arpi

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Yronk yoo flip

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Strange loop

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Fake water

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Pak ping bell

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Fake rain

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PSG chimes

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Breyey

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Yamaha CS80

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Arecibo

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Arecibo

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Arecibo

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Arecibo

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Arecibo

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Adlib fm

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Harmonic wibbling

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Light noise

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Light noise

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Light noise

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Light noise

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Grundig feedback

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Escher 7ths

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Stupidly nice

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Turntable feedback

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Evil x5dr

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Grunge E

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Square

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Microphone fumble

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The big H.P

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Motif - business

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Motif - reverse

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Motif - guess who

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Voice codec abuse

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Motif - reverse

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Generator reunion

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ruK. eeeweeewee. Kur

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Motif - alone piano

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Motif - wobbly 4

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Bohdran

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Ribbish gronkish

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Toy delays

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White pitch tracking

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Metalic factory

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Distant trains

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Contact-mic feedback

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Contact-mic feedback

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Grundig gate

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Confused machine

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Xray glasses

1.1M

Screaming metal

1.2M

Radiator

747.1K

Window cleaner bubbles

545.1K

Solar panel

748.4K

What in the flaming frog

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Black in the dark

1.0M

Garry barlow

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